My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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